Matt Cain Quotes

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games.

If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

I've always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.

The thing that kept me from going to the next level was, I really didn't have an out-pitch. My story in baseball could have been a lot different if that's all I focused on.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

I kind of realized I couldn't blow the ball by everybody. In high school I could do that, but now it's not going to work. I need to pitch.'

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.